SCHENECTADY -- A city cop testified that former police officer John Lewis' mother told him she became angry when her son came home drunk, and she pushed him, causing him to lose balance and crash through a table.

In Lewis' trial in City Court on Tuesday, Patrolman Ryan Macherone recounted that he spoke with Fran Lewis after he and fellow officers responded to a call about a domestic dispute at her Oregon Avenue home. The officers struggled to subdue John Lewis and put him in a police car during the early morning hours of Jan. 11, 2009.

Macherone told Assistant District Attorney Christina Tremante Pelham he noticed the kitchen was amiss, with the broken table and other items strewed about. In the living room, he found Jim Lewis, an Albany police officer, struggling to restrain John Lewis, his brother.

Under cross-examination by defense attorney Michael Horan, Macherone acknowledged he wrote in his police report that it was unclear to him at the time how the table broke.

The prosecutor also played portions of Macherone's in-car video of his interaction with Lewis as well as a recording from the processing area of police headquarters.

When the trial resumes Monday before City Court Judge Guido Loyola, several other officers who responded to the scene as well as Fran Lewis are scheduled to take the stand.

Outside court, Horan said Fran Lewis had to be subpoenaed to testify against her son, and will repeat comments she made during police internal hearings, that the dispute was an accident.

John Lewis, who was fired from the police department in April, has been arrested seven times in the past two years on domestic and drunken driving charges. Most recently, he was charged Friday with assault for allegedly punching and choking his new wife. He remains jailed.